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5870 Vertical lines Crash

dude, do me a favour and try half an hour of "furmark" that normally can force a screen mash in about 5 mins!
More grief today for me. Booting from cold goes straight to BSOD 0x000003B which is reported to be bad data from gfx to kernal!!
Sounds like driver corrupted from all this crashing. Let me know if you get round to trying that test, will be a sure fire way to test the tweak.
From your sig you have the bundle with patriot right? Which bios you on for UD5?
 
Two of us I know of tried the CCC profile tweak mentioned here, it's painless and so far I have been stressing my GPU with furmark and its passing long stress tests. Previous I would either crash the program because of some inherent driver issue or recreate the vertical lines!! NB Also I reinstalled 9.11 drivers and customed it to NOT install HDMI audio aswell. I dont why it's getting involved but seems like taking a potential contributor out of the equation is a good idea.

Try it and feedback or wait and see if new drivers fix it, and then come back and try it...
(I would'nt dare do the bios thing just in case i smashed my shi7)
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Let me start off by saying that the steps I'm outlining here happened to have worked for me personally. There's no guarantee that they will solve the issues that other people are having with these cards. Depending on system configuration, many more variables could be to blame.

Ever since I got the card, I have been plagued by 2 problems. The first one was the infamous vertical stripes problem, and the second was the random crashes when the computer was idle or in 2D mode (web browsing, light graphics, etc).

PROBLEM 1: Vertical Stripes. Description: When playing a 3D accelerated game, the card would sometimes crash by displaying the distinct vertical lines.

My solution: After weeks of forum trolling, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my card's bios to a "newer" one I found from ATI (my card is by XFX). I got the bios from here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/61848/ATI.HD5870.1024.091112.html

Conclusion/Observations: Since the update, not a single vertical lines crash. But I did continue to get 2D problems, which led me to find the next solution…



PROBLEM 2: Random crashes. Description: While NOT playing games, ie doing anything in 2D or when the computer would go idle or into screen powersaver mode, the crashes were almost certain. Windows graphical corruptions were also a tell-tale sign of the card being unstable and an impending crash.

My solution: Again after much reading, I came to the conclusion that Windows 64bit was not playing nice with my 5870’s powerplay function. Mainly that the idling 157 clock speed was not enough to keep the card stable when idle. After updating the card’s bios, I could go hours without a crash when playing a game, but then it would crash after I was done, when it sat idle on the desktop.

I came across this solution that forces the card to idle (2D) at a higher clock. I had to set it to a clock speed that Windows 7 would be happy with. (For me this was 400 when idle, and the stock 850 when running games)

Steps:

1. Open CCC

2. Unlock and Enable Overdrive if they aren’t already.

3. Go to Options/Profiles/Profiles Manager. Create a new profile. Under composition make sure “ATI Overdrive” is checked. Save and Close, DO NOT ACTIVATE.

4. In windows go to: C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\Profiles (you will need to have “show hidden files” turned on for this)

5. Open the xml document with the name of the profile you just created (notepad is fine)

6. Change the values of the Clock and Memory speeds to look like this (these specific values are what worked for me and my card, use judgment) EDIT ONLY THE BOLD VALUES.



Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="40000"

Property name="Want_1" value="60000"

Property name="Want_2" value="85000"

Feature

Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="90000"

Property name="Want_1" value="90000"

Property name="Want_2" value="120000"



7. Save and close. Go back to CCC and activate the profile you just created.

This will make the card idle at 400core, 900memory. (2D clocks are the "Want_0" values)

Conclusions/Observations: My system has been completely stable for 4 days now, whereas before I would get 2-3 crashes each day.



I know this was long, but after much searching in these forums, I figured I should share my experience and solutions and hopefully help someone with the same issues.
 
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Oh look, surprise surprise, that was happened when I closed firefox just now - LOL
Now I'm crazy! aaargh
Ok counted to 10 - applying profile tweak now to see if that really did help or was a fluke!!

 
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just to be sure which bios has the voltge tweak to cure this problem? Read THIS MATE "or" Apparently ATI have released a new BIOS to fix a displayport issue...

Reports are saying that it has increased 3D voltage:

BIOS version 113-C00101-101 - default voltage 1,162V
BIOS version 113-C00101-103 - default voltage 1,174V

Perhaps they've even increased 2D voltages and it may help stability for all of you having crashes.
 
Cool thanks for that - ok all done - had to rename the .bin to be able to see it, otherwise pretty painless. I pray to God this is the one, I'll let you know, of course!!!!
For any one reading
I am @ 9.12 + hotfix + BIOS as above......
 
Well, also not wanting to temp anything either, no problems here although I have done something different.

The profile and the BIOS didnt work and from reading this thread and others like it, I decided to try something else that was reported to work for some.

I went back to my overclock and relaxed the memory timings from 8-8-8-24 to 8-8-8-26 (as I heard over 4ghz - Im on 4.2ghz - can some times be required to bring stability back) upped my Vcore a notch and tested like never before. 24 hours of prime, blend, large FFT, linx, HCI memory in windows, memtest..anything I could do that would point the instability towards the OC @ 4.2. Nothing - sailed through it.

After that I then ran two separate hour sessions in furmark to try and force the graphics to crash. No error's.
I also then reinstalled the drivers and also deleted any left over files for freshest install possible.

So for me, touch wood, all is fine and not even done any of the tweaks for idle GPU clock.

Real world useage, 2-3 hour sessions of dirt 2 quite regular, PC been on all week in use and idle...not a whiff of the problem. I dont like announcing all this as it feels like I'm building up towards a fall. But I think it's all good. Off for more dirt 2 now and hope others are ok now too. Happy Xmas!
 
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